{"id":132554,"date":"2026-03-08T01:43:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/132554\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T01:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:43:19","slug":"human-remains-found-by-hikers-in-delaware-county-pennsylvania-park-state-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/132554\/","title":{"rendered":"Human remains found by hikers in Delaware County, Pennsylvania park, state police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of hikers discovered human remains on Friday in Ridley Creek State Park in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, state police say.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said two hikers called 911 at 12:30 p.m. after finding what they believed were human remains near 71 Chapel Hill Road inside the park.<\/p>\n<p>Upper Providence Township police and state police responded to the scene and requested assistance from the Delaware County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office. The examiner&#8217;s office recovered the remains and confirmed they were human.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the investigation is being conducted by Upper Providence Township police and Pennsylvania State Police.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear who the remains belong to or how long they may have been in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact the Pennsylvania State Police Criminal Investigation Unit at 484-840-1000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pair of hikers discovered human remains on Friday in Ridley Creek State Park in Delaware County, Pennsylvania,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[212,1224,69,71,70,61384],"class_list":["post-132554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-delaware-county","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-ridley-creek-state-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}